Regardless of who’s getting the touches in the Cowboys backfield – and whether or not those touches are part of a larger committee approach – the Dallas backfield is unlikely to produce a terribly fantasy-relevant starter in 2024. Through four weeks, a Cowboys running back has yet to be on the field for more than 50%% of the snaps in a game, while incumbent ‘starter’ Rico Dowdle has only handled <50% of the team rushing attempts once this year. That being said, Dowdle has seen increased usage over the past two weeks relative to the work he was seeing in Weeks 1 and 2, bumping up from 34% of the team’s carries to ~50% in Weeks 3 and 4. Of course, that’s nowhere near big enough a piece of the pie to be fantasy-relevant on a consistent basis. If the Cowboys would increase Dowdle’s snaps to a healthier (but still underwhelming) 60-65%, we could entertain conversations about him being a potential weekly flex play. However, until that change is instituted, fantasy managers should remain leery of Cowboys running backs– especially considering that the team could spring Dalvin Cook on the backfield at any moment.